Talk:St Neots railway station

Assessment

I have reduced this article from B to Start because it fails B-class criteria 1, 2, 3 - possibly others. See the grading scheme; the main reason for not being generous and rating it C is the almost total lack of information which relates to pre-2004 events. There is the "Historical railways" row in the succ box, but this is superfluous since the service still runs from St. Neots to both Sandy & Huntingdon. --Redrose64 (talk) 10:09, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Have discovered two adjacent closed stations, one each side of St Neots; these have now been placed in the Historical Railways row in place of present-day stations further away. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:36, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Platform numbers

For some reason, at this station the platform numbers seem to be reversed. There are four lines of course, but lines 3 and 4 go towards London and lines 1 and 2 towards Peterborough. This strikes me as unusual, because usually it is always 1 ("Up") for London. Certainly the other station along the ECML on the Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire stretch always have 1 up to London. It seems an odd arrangement; of course I am not suggesting they reroute the tracks just it puzzles me why they numbered them that way in contrary to most usual railway practice. I asked the stationmaster and a couple of other First Arriva guards at the station but apparently they have no idea either. Any clues?

Si Trew (talk) 09:52, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

It is indeed unusual for this line; but books such as

• Yonge, John (2006) [1994]. Jacobs, Gerald (ed.). Railway Track Diagrams 2: Eastern (3rd ed.). Bradford on Avon: Trackmaps. map 15C. ISBN 0 9549866 2 8. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

confirm the reversed arrangement.

I don't know the platform numbering policies for the GNR, LNER or BR (Eastern Region). What I do know is that some companies did have numbering policies, three of which may be summarised as

• platform 1 on the left as you face towards London
• platform 1 on the left as you face away from London
• platform 1 closest to main entrance of station

The Great Western was a big fan of the third method.

Sometimes platform numbers are altered after the original assignment, usually when extra through tracks are added. I don't know whether the platform numbers at this station, or any other on the line, have ever been altered though. Maybe, most of the others were altered and this one somehow slipped through? --Redrose64 (talk) 16:27, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

I am glad it is recorded here on WP. I am no trainspotter, more a logician, and it struck me as on. Thjank you redrose at least now there are leads to go by.

Si Trew (talk) 05:35, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

See this map for clarification: http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/sjp/SNO/plan.html. It is indeed odd for the ECML, but would by no means require a re-routing of the track, just a simple switching around of the signs (and PIS, etc.). As for First arriva guards.. where on earth did you find them?! Sgreen93 (talk) 18:28, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

According to RealTime Trains, there are only two other stations on the East Coast Main Line with the platforms numbered "the wrong way" - these are Newark North Gate and Pegswood. I'm not sure why that's the case though. 81.155.44.231 (talk) 12:15, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Naming

All sources (including the station name board in the picure) have "St Neots" without the full stop. So I plan to rename this article. Any objections? Colonies Chris (talk) 12:57, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Even though this is almost 5 years old, there have been no objections and NRE gives it without a full stop as well. Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 17:55, 29 October 2022 (UTC)

LNER

Just had an edit reverted, and I can understand why, but would LNER be worthy of a mention? it's several times a year currently, does this count as short term work? Lner12345 (talk) 18:36, 24 December 2023 (UTC)